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COLLOQUIA & CONFERENCES
IRRESOLUTE WAYS FOR FANATIC TIMES: THE "UNRESOLVED
MAN" OF 1589, MONTAIGNE, AND HAMLET
George Hoffmann
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
and Institute for the Humanities
University of Michigan
April 1, 2005
Friday, 4:00pm-6:00pm
Gambrell Hall Auditorium, Room 153
This is the keynote address for this year's French
Literature Conference, the topic of which is Civilization and French
and Francophone Literature and Film. Professor Hoffmann teaches at the
University of Michigan and is currently one of the most eloquent and perceptive
interpretors of the French sixteenth century. Author of the ground-breaking
Montaigne's Career (Oxford UP, 1998; winner of the MLA's 1999 Aldo and
Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literature), he will be
speaking from his current research into the development of the notion of
atheism in Early Modern Europe.
Sponsored by
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The Department of Philosophy
The South Carolina Honors College
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